{"id":1948,"date":"2009-01-12T11:51:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T19:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2009-01-12T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T19:51:50","slug":"apple-15-pippin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/apple-15-pippin\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple #15 pippin and #16 gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pippin I picked up last week at Rainbow marks apple #15. It was delicious, with a sort of meaty texture and mild flavor. I can&#8217;t stop thinking about the fact that Yvonne pointed out &#8212; that apples aren&#8217;t in season right now. It gives me something to look forward to. After eating out of season apples for so long, I&#8217;ll really know how to appreciate an in-season apple.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that there are several varieties of Pippins and I lost my sticker, so I have no idea what kind of Pippin this is. Maybe a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourseasonscabinrental.com\/pippinapples.html\">fall Pippin<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>My Pippin is probably related to an old english variety. Apples are usually pollinated with honey bees and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Megachilidae\">Orchard Mason Bees<\/a> (aka Jelly-belly bees). Sometimes Queen bumble bees help out as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3178231167\/\" title=\"pippin by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3116\/3178231167_78383f53e9_o.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" alt=\"pippin\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple #16 was a Gala that I gobbled down after walking up the Filbert steps to Coit Tower. It is unbelievably beautiful outside. All of us San Franciscans should all go climb a hill today. This weather is not to be believed. I forgot my camera! Hopefully tomorrow will be equally stunning. The Gala was pretty stunning too. Juicy and sweet and nice to eat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3179068814\/\" title=\"gala by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3507\/3179068814_127a9efbd1_o.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"353\" alt=\"gala\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pippin I picked up last week at Rainbow marks apple #15. It was delicious, with a sort of meaty texture and mild flavor. I can&#8217;t stop thinking about the fact that Yvonne pointed out &#8212; that apples aren&#8217;t in season right now. It gives me something to look forward to. After eating out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}